China is now more indebted relative to its GDP than the US, euro-zone and UK and the debt burden is still rising relentlessly. The risk that runaway debt triggers a crisis in China’s state-dominated financial system remains low. But the rise in leverage is symptomatic of an economy misallocating physical and financial resources on a scale that will continue to drag on growth.
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